The leggy newcomer arrived into the world to new mum Orla, with the joyous scene captured by the zoo’s CCTV cameras, at 11:30pm on Tuesday 12 March.
Footage shows the calf falling from a height of six feet onto a bed of soft straw following a 472 day pregnancy and a labour lasting more than three hours.
The youngster can then be seen stumbling to its feet and suckling from mum for the first time – all within just 30 minutes of being born.
Zookeepers are yet to determine if the two-day old is male or female and have said the calf already weighs more than 70kg and stands at 6 foot tall – but will grow to be more than 18 foot tall and weigh 1,000kg.
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Giraffes are my favorite animals. I have a zoo membership at least 50% because it means I can just go hang out by the giraffe habitat and watch them for a while, so I’m basically an expert and can say that this baby is perfect and amazing and I would die for it.
They’re so big! Like a creature from scifi
I know! Giant and knobby and gangly but then they have those Disney eyes and lashes. They’re the best.
Giraffe calf sees the light of day, freeing its self from its 18 month confine, free falls six feet, lands on its head
It has cool hair! I should visit
Very cute, also looks so alien at the same time.
Front butt
It looks like a stuffed animal that is also somehow 70 years old and tired of the world around them.
That’s some high res CCTV
Well…now what?
What even am i?
